Topic: Images in the IBM Cloud, December 2010Environment/software: All systems/all softwareLevel/type: Overview/information roundup

There is a new release of the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud, version 1.3, and a new cloud delivery center in Boulder, Colorado. You might want to take a look at these exciting cloud images.

Bringing rapid web and mobile app development to the power of DominoLotus Domino Enterprise Server 8.5.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (32-bit)

With the latest addition of XPages technology, the Domino platform has the enhanced ability to make it easy to rapidly design Web 2.0 collaborative applications. XPages are a rapid web and mobile application development platform whose programming model is based on standards and common web development skills like JavaScript, Ajax, the Dojo Toolkit, and JavaServer Faces; it can tap into the power of IBM Lotus Domino functionality like the document-oriented database.

User capabilities include

Reference databases with basic workflow for document review.

A Teamroom application.

The ability to run Lotus Domino collaborative applications.

Server capabilities include

Lotus Domino partitioning (the capability to run more than one instance of Lotus Domino on the same machine using one copy of the Lotus Domino code).

IBM Lotus Web Content Management can help organizations increase the efficiency and accuracy of Web site deployments by placing content creation in the hands of content experts while IT can retain control. And, through advanced personalization, Lotus Web Content Management can deliver the right information to the right audience exactly when they need it.

IBM WebSphere Portal Server is the foundation offering of the WebSphere Portal product family with enterprise portal capabilities that enable you to quickly consolidate applications and content into role-based applications, complete with search, personalization, and security capabilities.

This cloud image delivers a revolutionary user experience and expands traditional business intelligence with planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics. The Cognos Business Intelligence 10 image includes the capability to interact, search, and assemble all perspectives of your business.

The Cognos 10 image provides

Analytics everyone can use. A unified decision workspace that lets users view, assemble, and personalize data fast without help from IT. You can combine data from any source and explore it from any perspective. You can analyze facts and anticipate outcomes simply by shifting perspectives and time horizons.

Collaborative intelligence. It delivers built-in collaboration and social networking to drive the exchange of information, ideas, and activities. You can establish decision networks to discuss issues, share insights, and align decisions. You can support workflows to establish accountability and coordinate activities.

Analytics everywhere. It gives you the ability to respond quickly to changing conditions. You can deploy mobile, interactive analytics to everyone who needs them. You can integrate analytics into everyday activities and workflows.

Offered in bring-your-own-license format.

Customers can take control of data in the cloud networkCohesiveFT VPN-Cubed DataCenter Connect V0.6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (32-bit bronze)

CohesiveFT's VPN-Cubed image enables customer-controlled networking in a cloud, across multiple clouds, and between private infrastructure and the clouds. The Datacenter Connect version of the VPN-Cubed overlay network is designed to work between a data center using IPsec "extranet" connectivity and Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Terremark, Flexiant's Flexiscale, and now, the Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. Your IPsec device connects to an IPsec gateway in the cloud running as a virtual appliance which routes to your VPN-Cubed subnet in the cloud. It works with any IPsec device that supports IKE1 or IKE2, AES256 or AES128 or 3DES, SHA1, MD5, or NAT-Traversal.

They can be used to run key business computing topologies that have been moved to a cloud but still need secure access to the corporate datacenter.

They can be used to provision development infrastructure on the fly, allowing any number of identical copies of virtual servers to be run simultaneously, copies that are identical down to the IP address.